Hi, I enclose a basic set of headers [in a single file for simplicity at this stage] so that the set of functions to provide Unicode character data can be discussed. I believe that the core functions calls will probably end up using functions pointers so that different DLLs can use the same functionality and still have the implementation be transparent, and that the function pointers will the retrieved during an initialise call. Does anybody have any strong opinions on this? Once the Unicode.h contents are agreed then I hope - if it is agreed quickly - to implement the necessary data generators to implement it. Once that is done then a string implementation should be fairly quick to implement. I welcome comments. Yours, Graham Barnett BEng, MCSD/ MCAD .Net, MCSE/ MCSA 2003, CompTIA Sec+